[Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

[Teofilo]

2010/9/7, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com>:
> 2010/9/7, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>:
>
>> Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to
>> PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and
>> mobile.wikipedia.org respectively.
>
> The absence of a history tab in the mobile format is in my view an
> exact measurement of the temperature of the warmth of the relations
> between the WMF and its contributors.
>
> Let's not call this a conspiracy. Philosopher Pierre Bourdieu  would
> call it an unconcious strategy (1).

The other reason why we can't call this a conspiracy is that a
conspiracy is usually kept secret, while that agenda is known by a lot
of people. They even managed to organise a vote and found a majority
approving it at

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Result

The result is the adding of "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is
sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license" on every
edit tab footer.

The result is that it is thought that it is OK to distribute contents
without the history tab, the author's names remaining in a format not
readable on the device the user is using. So all these things are
features of the new vastly known agenda. They are not bugs.